Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:48:39 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why should root access have such a common user name Message-ID: <8sc5in$24qu$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20001015093533.80353.qmail@web9207.mail.yahoo.com>
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Charles Thompson <c_gulll@yahoo.com> wrote: > This may soud somewhat asinine, but I cant help but > ask. Is it possible to have the system not use root as > a user for root access. Absolutely. vipw(8), and rename "root" to something else. There are zillions of scripts and Makefiles that are hardcoded to assume that root is a valid name for the superuser, and that you will consequently need to fix, but "root" is merely a convention. Of course, if you need to ask, you'll probably hang yourself with it. > To me if knowing the user name is half the battle. Yeah. Whatever. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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